My practice moves across drawing, painting, collage, film, photography, performance, sculpture, and written word — not as separate languages but as extensions of the same voice. What holds it together is interruption: re-entering history, revising structure, letting the body speak where words get choked back.
I am a Chicana artist, born in San Francisco, based in London. The Queer brown female figure is at the centre of my work — placed inside a canon that was built to exclude her. I draw on decolonial and Indigenous feminist methodologies not as framework but as the way I was raised, as accountability to the subjects I engage. My voice is the archive.
The written word runs through everything — as image, as evidence, as demand. Film and photography extend the practice into duration and witness.
I hold a studio residency at the Florence Trust and am currently showing at Hastings Contemporary. My practice-led doctoral research at the Research Centre for Arts and Learning, Goldsmiths, extends this enquiry into the colonial misreading of Indigenous sculpture — one thread in a practice built across Mexican diasporic identity, decolonial feminism and the unfinished business of visibility.
A lifelong social activist and football player, my embodied relationship to sport directly informs my research into gender, visibility and power. I hold a law degree from Golden Gate University School of Law, grounding my artistic practice in histories of advocacy, human rights and structural critique.
I eat the canon and spit the bones.
upcoming
Florence Trust, Artist in Residence, End of Year Exhibition: 25/07 – 02/08, 35 Britannia Row
FT: 1-1, 08/08, 08:00am – 08:00pm, Holy Trinity, Florence Trust, N1
Rhymes with Dice, Holy Trinity, at Florence Trust, Islington, London